From the Isabella vine that grows over the pergola, some of the grapes harvested this year (in one of Nanna Francesca’s salad bowls circa 1960s/70s.) Each year the grapevine yields enough to make about half a dozen bottles of wine…a modest, homemade vintage but a tiny bit of Italy in an Australian suburban backyard.

Beautiful! We have a vine that is supposed to be a wine variety of a slip grape and it is so delicious we just keep eating them. One year I may try some wine, the grape has an almost passionfruit flavour to it. How lucky to have that beautiful bowl.